Abysmal

stu_miller

I had heard people say how bad this was but kept faith that there would be something about it that I liked.

Unfortunately, within the first 15 minutes, I knew I wasn't going to find that something.

It is probably up there with some of the worst films I have seen in my life and I am really sad to have to say this.

The characters are poor and the acting is excruciatingly bad. Especially the guy who plays the priest, Unax Ugalde and Asia Argento. Kretschman is the only thing that saved me from giving this film one star, and even he isn't that great which surprised me, as he is a fine actor.

The dubbing is hideous; soulless voices and ridiculously long and unnecessary pauses between dialogue. It's almost like they did it as an intentional joke. It's not funny. Then there's the CGI; the owl, the train station, Dracula shape-shifting from a wolf back into a vampire are all terrible and look like bad video game graphics.

Some of the other less ambitious CGI is OK, however. The preying mantis is just plain stupid. You'll be laughing and embarrassed at the same time.

I can't remember seeing a worse or more clumsily amateurish take on Bram Stoker's book and anyone who tries to pull similarities between this and any of Hammer's fine works are clearly wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. This film bares no resemblance to any of Hammer's films. To say as such is a massive slur on Hammer's name.

Awful.

score 2/10

stu_miller 1 April 2013

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2775643/